Barbara Sternberg Movies

Emotions come & go; so do people. The world is an awful & awesome place; so is the mind. We hear dark inner thoughts of a person & see people taking...

The sensual, with its beauty and possibility of decay, is set beside immutable statues of the Virgin Mary. Images from technological viewing of the...

The central image of in the nature of things is the Forest- sometimes fearful, sometimes a refuge, always mysterious, and the multiple associations...

A dog and two cats in France living, naturally.

This film is about love - relations between men and women, conversations in the air. Men are heard in voice-over speaking a love-talk which is...

Transitions is a film of inner life and speaks of time, reality, power. It depicts the disquieting sensations of being in-between-between falling...

A short video documentary by Barbara Sternberg, approximating the dual-screen approach of the titular filmmaker. Brown speaks candidly, is shown in a...

Brief moments of being, fleeting bits of the surrounding chaos.

Videoed off projected super 8 footage, this short film in four parts (titles from Artaud: “ the earth in the sea, the air in the earth, the...

Brief moments of being, fleeting bits out of the surrounding chaos. These 4 shorts films can be shown separately or one after the other on the roll.

"Poetry, film, light, life. An excerpt from Rilke's Ninth Elegy [...] evokes the beauty and brevity of life. Images shimmer in an uncanny light. We...

Our busy comings and goings, on the move, working at life are pictured, but layers of images and scratched emulsion make viewing through the depths...

Opus 40” is about repetition: repetition in working and living, repetition through multiplicity and series, repetition to form pattern and...

“Elemental Vision or a film for the rest of my life" is 'about' light and time - moments captured in their passing, light events shot in...

Ideas about how we live in the world as humans, the difficulties faced, the conditions of our brief existence, accompany us consciously or...

vers(ing) opens in a coffee shop. People, sit, enter and exit. A conversation is heard. The video continues, traveling through the streets of a city,...

Images flutter and flicker in orgasmic rhythms. Visual references to Bataille’s “solar anus”, to romantic coupling, to monkeys and...

"Like a Dream That Vanishes" continues Sternberg’s work in film both thematically and formally: the ephemerality of life echoed in the temporal...